Discussion Helps for Meeting 5 - Transformation

Icebreaker

If you could change any one thing about yourself, what would you change and why?

Connecting Personally Clips - For this meeting we had a couple of “Connecting Personally” clips - Clip 1 - (:48) was an example of what communing with God through prayer can look like and Clip 2 - (4:09) shows us what reading the word to know Him can look like.

Were these clips helpful?

Is anyone trying to make this kind of communing with God a regular part of their alone time with God? If so, how is it going?

What stood out to you the most from the main video clip? Any favorite quotes?

Did anything confuse you?

(0:30) Right at the beginning of the main clip Dan talks about communing with God through songs in worship and says, “Even if you’re not singing the song - or saying, "Well, I don’t know the song." Commune with the Lord. Get to know Him. Ask Him some questions. Thank Him for a few things. Just get personal. You know, if you never get to know the Lord you’ll get reduced to just serving Him. And your life won’t be transformed through knowing Him. You’ll just do things for Him instead of becoming more like Him through the relationship... It’s a real low level of Christian living - just serving the Lord.”

What do you think he means by “real low level of Christian living”?

What hinders us from being transformed?

(8:30) Dan talks about God making us for His image and cites several scriptures. Let’s take a look at them.

(18:00) Dan talks about the Gospel not being about just praying a prayer to go to heaven one day but heaven coming back inside of us - that it’s about putting off the old and putting on the new - that it's about a new creation. He cites several verses. Let’s take a look at those: